WARNING: Miley Cyrus Scam Returns To Facebook

Yet another Miley Cyrus scam has surfaced on Facebook. Watch out for these posts, and whatever you do, don't click on them.

She’s baaaack: Yet another Miley Cyrus scam has surfaced on Facebook. Don’t click on any wall posts that look like the one pictured below.

The link leads to a short web address such as http://cuetub.info/np/ showing a mock YouTube page promising a video that by now you should know doesn’t exist.

Click on the play icon, and a window pops up offering a menu of marketing surveys. The creator of this scamware earns a commission for every survey completed, meaning anyone who clicks through and fills out a questionnaire contributes to the scammer’s livelihood, and exposes that clicking individual to malware and possible privacy violations.

Whenever you see a posting on Facebook that looks like a scam, report it by communicating with the site’s security team, that you can find by licking

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